Anth Mouat returns with a dog whistle. Redhouse Fusion 5 Sassco.co.uk 4. A depleted Fusion team, without Quinn, Lay or Wooton, took on a strong Sassco team, so it was quite…
Approximately 1525 days, 22 hours, 28 minutes and 26 seconds, or 4 years, 2 months, 5 days since Season 16 ended (back in 2011), Season 17 kicked off in similar fashion. Sassco…
Victory again. Charlie doesn’t score. A bit of a headache today, as we had so many drop outs for our regular football game against Sunderland Deaf FC. One by one, Si,…
A new year and another win for Sassco 11-a-side, who are now unbeaten in nearly two years. Sunderland Deaf Football Club were the opponents and the venue changed time due to…
Charlie’s third hat-trick in as many games and Titch’s “dummy” goal! A much changed line-up saw Sassco take on Sunderland Deaf Football Club at their new venue, Sandhill Centre. Only Craig…
In my continuing attempt to look for sponsorship for the tour, I was graciously turned down by Mobilefun.co.uk. However, having heard about Tim’s constant texting during the Spain Tour 2010 (click…
Brave Rockets defeated by two Grant Foster goals. With Fusion, the obvious favourites, arrogantly failing to pay off their outstanding fines, they were unceremoniously ejected from the League and gave the…
Brave Rockets defeated by two Grant Foster goals. With Fusion, the obvious favourites, arrogantly failing to pay off their outstanding fines, they were unceremoniously ejected from the League and gave the…
Rocket’s, Impact, Sassco and Soul Cal to decide placings. Redhouse Fusion failed to inform the league by the Friday deadline about the Tuesday fixture, so therefore were removed from the League.…
Sassco 11-a-side have ended their eight year run as a competing team in local leagues. Unfortunately, Anthony Pearson, who was reluctantly thrust into running the team wasn’t given much help in…
Professional hammering. The next day, we got a bit of an early morning hammering from our esteemed opponents, UE Sants. They were very good and played quick Futsal. Hembrough was getting…
Seaburn trounce Sassco. Seaburn Soca 3 Sassco.co.uk 0.The second headline says it all. Seaburn easily beat an almost completely different looking Sassco side in the opening game. Sassco had the veteran…
Murton’s chaos delivers a result. Sangha is humiliated in front of a large crowd. Murton and Robinson proved their worth in front of the big crowd of around ten people. Sangha’s…
Heavy defeat for Sassco and a major setback for Fulwell. Two major games on the night between the top two, Nissan and Fulwell, and bottom two, Sassco and Downhill. Both ended…
Another average season from Sassco, blighted by inconsistency. Unlike previous seasons, this campaign saw some heavy defeats against teams, transformed by handsome wins or, at least, massive improvements in results and…
Downhill cancel out Fusion. After two missing weeks, I’ve come back to missing kits and teams suffering shortages forcing players from other teams to play for them. Sassco.co.uk 4 Roker Roar…
Old timers run out of steam after Callum’s hat-trick. It was expanding bellies and unfit legs, and we weren’t talking about Muers, who managed to cover his cast-iron cast with padding…
Seaburn win again. Soul Cal’s impressive debut. Downhill’s steady progress. Pleased to say that the Tuesday League is thriving. From a low number of teams back when last season ended, to…
Howe equalises as Sassco tighten up. It only really happens to Sassco. A player refusing to be captain, then the team wandering around in circles around the sports complex, looking for…
Roker Roar suffer a heavy defeat. Downhill Impact 4 Roker Roar 0.Despite having Rikki Kennedy, who showed his age and lack of fitness with a poor performance, Downhill were lucky to…
Worrying times ahead. I’m being a bit pessimistic; after all we were missing a fair few players from the previous game. Andy Turner, Chris Dixon, Mark Muers, Nick Smith, Dan Young,…
Redhouse Storm’s debut ends in a defeat. Sassco.co.uk 4 Bunker UK 0.Sassco comfortably defeated Bunker with two goals from Bell and two from Muers. The first half was 1-0 and there…
Ramsay’s second half goal gives Sassco their first win. Quite a few chances from last week’s game against Northern Alliance Chemfica. In came Nicky Smith, Nick Danks, Dan Young, Andy Turner…
Rockets are shocked by a Roker winner. Redhouse Fusion 7 Sassco.co.uk 2.Sassco were brimming with confidence, having added Stevie Weavie Borat and Thomas and Teeb to the team from the ashes…
Greenwell’s return marred by an expected defeat. Two games were actually played. The first was a standard 45 minute each way game, ending in a 5-0 defeat, while the second one…
More humiliation. We were already struggling with players. Dan Young and David Oxley both dropped the team in it, but we managed to scrape together ten players and persuaded Dan Carson…
New team, Seaburn Soca, suffer against Sassco. Redhouse Fusion 7 Bunker UK 0.Fusion took their time to open the scoring against the Bunker, but once they did, they looked unstoppable. When…
Second defeat in pre-season. Bit of a disaster again. Blanks up front, with shots wayward and not a Jabulani in sight. Any other shots were soft and usually direct at the…
Another defeat for the “A” team. Firstly, thanks to Dave Smith and Scott Smith for arranging the extra players: Simon Graney, Liam Murray, Nick Danks and Dan Young. Also, thanks to…
Strong opening from Redhouse Rockets. Redhouse Fusion 5 Redhouse Rockets 3.For a first game, it was more than impressive from the newly formed Redhouse Rockets, with their manager, Kurt Richardson, in…
Campbell’s heroics for Impact. Downhill Impact 6 Sassco.co.uk 1.Another disaster from Sassco as Downhill easily out ran them and took a commanding lead. WWC 1 Redhouse Fusion 0.A preview of the…
Sangha puts Sassco 3 points ahead. That’s all that matters. Well would you believe it? Expecting a hammering, the brave Sassco bunch: Dave Smith, Dave Simpson, Mark Muers, Marc McDermont, myself…
Even Sangha scores! WWC FC 5 Downhill Impact* 2.Downhill Impact were temporarily “replaced” by Conor Staples’ new team. Their opponents were WWC, who while smarting from a surprise defeat last week,…
Teeb and Teeb Senior = WWC defeat. After a good few months in hibernation, the Tuesday 6-a-side League returned to action in glorious sunshine. Sassco.co.uk 4 WWC FC 1. It was…
Possibly the poorest Sassco season for a number of years, easily the most disappointing since we dropped out of the top division in 2005, without a single win to our name.…
Redhouse stumble to the finishing line with a win. Scott Dixon strode up confidently and stroked the penalty to score for Redhouse FC, early in the second half to settle the…
Muers is substituted for Sangha. Another depleted squad, but this time, a superb win. Sassco eventually ground Arms Citys down and scored two second half goals to make the 1-1 half-time…
Simma’s conceded nine goals in two games. A chaotic back line, with Simma seemingly forgetting how he was supposed to be a goalkeeper. Even then, it was mistakes all over the…
Dave Gourlay, languishing on the sidelines for varying reasons, decided to grill his General Manager, Sangha, with some Jeremy Paxman like questions. Q/ Sassco has been running over 10…
Revitalised performance. After the midweek chaos, it was back to bare bones again and near panic as Titch decided to go camping two hours before kick off. I managed to get…
Same old, same old with Sassco. A more than decent line up ended in a farcical performance and swathes of in-fighting including “you’re shitter than me” competitions amongst individual players; namely…
Walking wounded. Bit of a disaster. The first ever Monday evening game in the WCFL for Sassco. It didn’t start well considering we had to rely on the ever unreliable Wayne…
Brave performance from nine men. Well what can I say? Yes, my legs weren’t as long as I thought they were and didn’t reach the ball, which went on through for…
You want a report? Well here’s a report. Ever since Macca returned to the fold after his fling with Cambridge, the team has gone backwards. A depleted team were still more…
Aspire 2 Achieve and the Sassco.co.uk Knightflyers say thank you to a local hero. Aspire 2 Achieve and the Sassco.co.uk Knightflyers hosted a special awards ceremony at Coquet High School on…
McDermont, cap in hand, returns to Sassco and begs forgiveness. A massively depleted squad was given an extra edge when McDermont decided to miss the 4-2 defeat against the Colliery Tavern…
Depleted squad lifted by Sangha’s first ever assist. Loads missing; not happy at all. Scott Smith is out for a while due to shin splints, Gourlay was injured, Stoker and Langan…
Fusion defeat WWC FC. Downhill Impact 6 Sassco.co.uk 5.Firstly, Logan launches one of the longest throws ever, considering that most humans can spit further than he can throw a ball. The…
Both Town End and New Tavern ejected from the League. Redhouse Fusion 3 Downhill Impact 2. Redhouse Fusion only had five players, but took the game to Downhill Impact. An early…
Town End “Thunder” past a sorry Sassco. WWC 4 Downhill Impact 0. Downhill’s last game was the historic 1-0 victory over the Champions, but this week (after a one week break),…
Sassco.co.uk are linking up with a basketball team / organisation called the Northumberland Knightflyers who will now be known as Sassco.co.uk Knightflyers. Email contact is: info@aspire2achieve.org.uk The Northumberland Knightflyers Basketball Club…
A stunning win for Impact over the Champions. Downhill Impact 1 Redhouse Fusion 0.A truly astonishing win for Impact. The score was 0-0 and in the dying minutes, Impact broke clear…
Delighted to announce that The Bunker will be taking on the role of main 11-a-side sponsor for next season. This now means that they sponsor the 11-a-side and the 6-a-side. Thanks…
Four goal win over WWC sees Fusion head the pack. Sassco.co.uk 3 Downhill Impact 0.An almost unrecognisable Impact team suffered a trouncing at the hands of Sassco.co.uk, who had Keith Mouat…
Brian, as Team Secretary, has known all the background goings on within the Sassco Organisation for the last few years. Brian has always been involved in football even from an early…
In the first of a series of interviews, Michael Pearson, a long standing, original member of the team, now Assistant Coach, answers some in-depth questions. Michael was selected by General Manager,…
Sassco have been invited, and are likely to take part (in some form or another) in a training experiment involving Newcastle Science City (http://www.newcastlesciencecity.com). Eric Foch, Lead Innovater, contacted us regarding…
A few weeks back, as I was getting booted around the pitch by the Lay brother’s (both not even twenty years of age at the time), I decided that it’s either…
Undefeated in four games with a comfortable win. The players decided to bring a Nike match ball to play with today, much to my disagreement, so much that I threatened to…
Another comeback. Sassco are widely becoming the comeback kings now. Two weeks ago, it was a 3-0 deficit, now it was a 3-1 reverse. Greenwell, after the traumatic experience of being…
Hylton won 4-2 on penalties. I’m in preparation to be hauled up and bent over in front of the discipline committee, who will take turns running along the corridor to boot…
Sangha defies Bell, Walker, Anderson and co. (Kyle wasn’t that good). Sassco.co.uk 2 WWC 0.The last game of the night sprung a surprise. Sangha drafted in two ex-Hendon players, McConville and…
DF FC 6 Sassco.co.uk 4. Day 3, the final day of the tour. I was up at 7:00am and by 8:00am was making my way to McDonalds for breakfast. Nothing was…
More publicity in Portugal. Algarve Resident, the local newspaper (online and in print) for the area, will be featuring Sassco’s tour. Thanks to Inês Lopes at the newspaper and also Gary Thomas at…
2-0 up, then 4-2 and 4-3 down. Poor second half. Disappointing game, really. We were 2-0 ahead, but succumbed to a quick response and then a difficult second half. Both teams…
Josh Lay scores a brilliant single goal to outshine Kurt Baxendale’s double hat-trick. WWC 3 Sassco.co.uk 1 Stevie “Borat” Anderson fired in an accurate shot through Wayne Greenwell’s gangly legs to…
Poor defending, but dirtier drop-outs. Dirty drop-outs were Macca and Titch. Anth Langan didn’t reply to any texts during the week, so I assumed he would not be there. We drafted…
He steals the show again. WWC 3 IPS 0. It was all Teeb again. He turned up with instructions to wear white shorts and white socks, but in “Teeb World” white…
“Ancient” Steve Lawson megs Rikki Kennedy to lay Kev McCluskey on for his equaliser. Redhouse Fusion 1 Downhill Impact 1.An amazing result from the rapidly improving Downhill team. Redhouse Fusion were…
Two fat ladies on top and two goals a piece. A few changes for the Park View game. Bri Watson was missing and enjoying a dirty weekend at Lumley Castle and…
Anth Pearson’s rare double strike! Unfortunately, Hendon Rovers have withdrawn from the competition due to lack of available players. This combined with Redhouse Stars leaving means that we are back down…
Good effort, but nothing to show for it. Despite the negative scoreline, it was Sassco’s best 90 minute performance after two poor opening games. But, being realistic, it was just another…
Thunder still on top, but Fusion closing in. Wear Consulting 3 Hendon Rovers 0 match awardedHendon Rovers were unable to field a team, so Wear Consulting received the three points. Hendon…
Tyson reaches the summit and wants to stay there. Town End Thunder 7 Sassco.co.uk 2It was shocking that goalkeeper Simpson, despite carrying an injury got Sassco’s goals, but more shocking that…
The enemy within strikes. William Harper’s task as the newly installed Team Coach was to restrict the score to no more than eight goals. Admittedly, this was said in jest as…
Our very own Dave Graham single handily (his own words) took on a mainly youth based Cheltenham Town FC in a friendly for his Royal Corps of Signals team. He wasn’t…
Controversial “goal” gives Sassco their first points. The third day of Season 14 took place amidst a downpour. Sassco.co.uk 4 Wear Consulting 2When the downpour began, Sassco were coasting at 2-0…
Tyson, Richardson and Mouat are dismissed in Town End’s 2-0 win. One more team was added to the League to take the total up to a healthy nine teams. Darren Duggan…
3-0 down. Simma the Legend, McConville the Hero, Stoker the Albanian. An away trip up North to Geordie Land. The Tyne Tunnel was closed, so it was the long way around.…
An unexpected win for Hendon over Town End. A great start to Season 14. After the doom and gloom over the last few weeks, the original five teams which battled in…
Remember the pre-match handshakes when we played our three games in Malta? We received pennants and emblems from the opponents, while all Dave Gourlay could offer was a handshake and a…
Sounds better than it actually was. A shambles of a performance from start to finish. Mistakes were being made by everyone and the result wasn’t surprising in the end. Being a…
Another solid performance from IPS fails to gain a goal, but Sassco cruise past their opponents. AA Fabrications 1 IPS 0Yet another stubborn performance from IPS. Mark Moon’s goal settled the…
A good run out and a good performance. A humid day and a good victory with a full Sassco team despite missing quite a few of the regular players. Macca, Marky,…
It’s AA v IPS and Sassco v Hendon in the Semi Finals. The final set of games to decide the semi final placings took place tonight in searing heat. AA gained…
Four players from Sassco out of a squad of six took part on the behalf of Azure-design.com in the PowerLeague Five-a-side Cup in Gateshead. The players involved were Davinder Sangha (in…
The final set of games for the AGUK Super League take place on Tuesday 23rd to decide the Semi Finalists. Both Sassco and Hendon will most likely be joining them, however,…
Hendon get two back to back wins! A night which saw Murton summarily dismissed from the field (possibly never to be seen again – as predicted) and Hendon Rovers gain two…
AA draw first blood against Hylton Castle. A decent start for the new AGUK Super League cup, despite all the teams no longer involved. Sporting Redhouse were added to Redhouse Youth’s…
Our usual comprehensive pre-season programme is underway. The first game was the 2-1 home defeat against Redhouse FC on 23rd May for the AGUK Cup (report further down the page). The…